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OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM 

of the 

ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFER.ENCE 

of " 

Eastern Pviblic 
Ed VI cat ion Associations 

MEETING WITH THE GR.EAT INTERNATIONAL 
CONGR.ESS ON TUBER.CULOSIS 



By special arrangement, all lectures gf the Congress 
and of the Conference are open to the members and 
delegates of each,._ ^nd., J:p .their guests. 

SEPTEMBER 28th TO OCTOBER. 3rd 

under the auspices of the 

PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 

SUBJECT: "THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AS A SAFEGUARD TO PUBLIC 
HEALTH." Accompanied by an Exhibit of Congestion of Population, and 
Congested School Rooms, and their Relation to Public Health. 



CALENDAR- OF CONFERENCE. 1908 



Monday, Sept. 28 

Tuesday, Sept. 29 
Wednesday, Sept. 30 
Thursday, Oct. 1 

Friday, Oct. 2 
Saturday, Oct. 3 



9 A. M. 
Registration, Willard 
Hotel, 14th St. and 
Penn. Ave. 

Willard Hotel. 

8 A. M. 

In rear of 1204 Penn. 
Ave. 

In front of Home Life 
Building, 15th St. and 
G St. 

9 A. M. 
Willard Hotel. 

Juvenile Court, 1816 F St. 



2 P. M. 
New Municipal Building, E 
St. and Penn. Ave. and 
14th St. 

Business High School, 9th 
St. and Rhode Island Ave. 

Business High School. 
Business High School. 

Business High School. 
Willard Hotel. 



7.30 P. M. 
Shoreham Hotel, 15th and 
H St., N. W. 



Shoreham Hotel. 
Shoreham Hotel. 



Raleigh Hotel, 12th St. 
and Penn. Ave. 



Willard Hotel. 
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

The thanks of this Conference are due publicly, for various courtesies, to Dr. John 
S. Fulton, Mr, John J. McMahon, Mr. James S. Hiatt, Mrs. C. C. Darwin, Mrs, L. R, 
Dashiell, Mrs. A. J. George, Mrs. J. M. Price, Dr. Jane Robins, Mrs. John Milton 
Gitterman, Mr. George I. Aldridge, Mr. Neall S. Brown, Colonel McElroy, Mr. J. L. 
Shipley, Mr. H. B. Darling, Mr. Wm. W. Norman, Mr. John L. Newbold, Mr. E. E. 
Raf)ley. 



PROGRAM. 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th. 

SESSION AT 9 A. M. 

Willard Hotel, 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. 

AUTOMOBILE TRIP 

The delegates will meet for registration between 8 and 9 in the morning; imme- 
diately after which, the schools will be visited by a specially arranged automobile trip, 
the fare for which will be one dollar per person. 

Note. — The schools may be reached by trolley lines, but we recommend the trip by 
automobile and with the Association's own guides. Those desiring to go by automobile 
are requested to send their names before September loth to Mr. John J. McMahon, 
918 F Street, N. W., Washington. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. 

Board Room, New Municipal Building, Pennsylvania Ave., D and 14th Sts. 
The delegates will be received by the Honorable Henry B. F. Macfarland, Pres-ident 
of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, 

Cotnmissioiier Macfarland. 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME, TEXDEKING THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY 

SCHOOLS, 
Superintendent A. T. Stuart, Ph. B., M, A., 

Superintendent of Public Schools, District of Columbia. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 
Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H Sts., N. W. 

THE VALUE OF VOLUNTEKK, WORK TO A COM.UUNITY'S CIVIC HEALTH, 

Allen Albert, Jr., 

Editor, The Washington Times; Director and Member Executive Committee, Chamber 

of Commerce. 

DRAMATK^ SELECTIONS, 

Miss Miriam Lee Earley, 

Department of English, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. 

"THE USES OF THE MODERV SCHOOL HOUSE" (Illustrated), 
Henry 31. Leipziger, LL. B., Ph. D., 

Supervisor of the "Free Public Lectures to the People," Board of Education, 
New York City; Author, Educational and Ethical Essays. 

DISCUSSION. 

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th. 

SESSION AT 9 A. M. 

Willard Hotel. 

BUSINESS MEETING OF DELEGATES. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. 

Business High School, 9th St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. 

KEPOKTS OF DELEGATES. 

Five minute written reports by the voting delegates upon Affiliated Public Education 

Associations. 
Note. — To save time and to insure the inclusion and hearing of each one, these 
reports will be read from the platform by a professional reader, and later incor- 
porated into the Printed Proceedings of the Conference. Please send the written 
report of your Association before September loth, to Mr. John J. McMahon, 918 F 
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Delegates will report on the General Scope, Actual Accomplishment and Future 
Plans of their respective Education Associations. It is hoped that foreign delegates 
and those from States without organized Education Associations may find inspiration 
and suggestion. 

Discussion and Questions on the Organization and Conduct of Education Associa- 
tions until 3.30. 

"EYE SIGHT AND GENERAL HEALTH IN SCHOOL CHILDREN," 

Mrs. Emma J. Crouse, 

Graduate Refractionist, Columbia University and Spencer Institute, New York City; 

Graduate Nurse, Edinburg College, Pennsylvania; Appointee, Jamestown (Chautauqua 

County), New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, School Boards to examine and report 

upon the eyes of all school children under their respective jurisdictions. 

"SCHOOL HYGIENE AS A FACTOR IN PUBLIC ADVANCEMENT," 
Pearce Kintzing, B. S., M. D., 
Author, "Old Age and How to iVttain It"; Professor, Clinical Medicine and 
Diseases of the Heart, Maryland Medical College; Physician, Franklin Square Hos- 
pital, Baltimore, Maryland; Honorary Vice-President, Public Federal Education 

Association. 

DISCUSSION. 



.,..,., PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 

Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H Sts., N. W. 
"THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS," 

A. Duncan Yocum, Ph. D., 

Professor, Pedagogy, University of Pennsylvania; Director, The Summer School, 

University of Pennsylvania. 

"THE JUVENILE COURT AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL HE.ALTH," 

His Honor, William H. De Lacey, LL. B, LL. M., D. C. L., 

Judge, Juvenile Court, District of Columbia; President, St. Vincent de Paul 

Charitable Society; President, National Alumni Association of Christian Brothers; 

Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia; Member of the Bar of the Supreme 

Court of the United States. 

DISCUSSION. 



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Im Centrum der Stadt g-leichweit 
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^ " WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th. 

8 A. M. 
(Note. — One hour earlier than the other morning sessions.) 
In the rear of 1204 Pennsylvania Avenue. 
Special Train to Arlington, the National Cemetery; Alexandria, Va., and Mount 
Vernon, the home of George Washington. The Association will have lecturers on 
the trains, wagonettes and guides for the trip around Arlington, and guides for 
Alexandria and Mount Vernon. A lunch will be served the delegates at Mount Ver- 
non. The fare for this trip will be two dollars per person. Those desiring to go by 
special train are requested to send their names before September loth to Mr. John 
J. McMahon, 918 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. 
Business High School, 9th St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. 

• "PHYSICAIi TRAINING IN THE SCHOOLS," 

Mi.ss Kebpcca Stoneroa<l, M. D , 

Director, Physical Special Work, Public Schools, District of Columbia. 

"MORA.L HEALTH THROUGH SCHOOL, ATHLETICS," 

(A proposed course of Lectures for all schools.) 
Rev. Milton Fairchild, M. A., 

Secretary and Lecturer, The Moral Education Board, Albany, New York; Author, 
"The Marriage Service," "Commandments Which Father Wisdom Taught the Child 
He Loved." 

DISCUSSION. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 
, Shoreham Hotel, isth and H Sts., N. W. 

"PRACTICAL FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS 
AND SCHOOL AD3IINISTRATION," 

W. V. Cox, Esq., 

Vice-President, Board of Education, District of Columbia; Chairman, Ways and Means 
Committee of the Board; President, Second National Bank, Washington, D. C. 

"THE YOUNG MAN AND SOCIAL BETTERMENT," 
Louis C. "Wilson, LL. B., 

Assistant Assessor, District of Columbia. 

"THE PUBLIC SCHOOL IN ITS RELATION TO THE FUTURE HEALTH 

OF THE INDIVIDUAL," 

Charles Gilmore Kerley, M, D , 

Author, "The Treatment of the Diseases of Children," "Short Talks with Young 
Mothers"; Professor, Diseases of Children, New York Polyclinic Medical School and 
Hospital; Attending Physician, New York Infant Asylum and Maternity; Assistant 
Attending Physician, Babies' Hospital. 

DISCUSSION. 



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THURSDAY, OCTOBER ist. 

SESSION AT 9 A. M. 

In front of Home Life Building, 15th and G Sts., N. W. 

AUTOMOBILE TRIP. 

Specially arranged automobile trip to schools, and seeing the city, including the 
Capitol and the Congressional Library, fare for which will be one dollar per person. 
See Note a. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. 

Business High School, gth St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. 

"SOCIAl, HEALTH IV A SCHOOL DISTRICT," 

Miss Julia Richman, 

Superintendent, Second and Third Public School Districts of the City of New York. 

•SOME GENERAL PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE CLEVELAND SCHOOL 
EIRE, OR THE LIFE AND LIMB OF OUR CITY SCHOOL CHILDREN," 

Captain Jaxaes F. Oyster, 

President, Board of Education, District of Columbia; Vice-President, Chamber of 
Commerce; Director, Board of Trade. 

DISCUSSION. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 

Followed by a Public Reception (Evening Dress). 
Raleigh Hotel, 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. 

"LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE SCHOOL," 

Honorable J. Van Vecliten Olcott, LL. B., LL. D., 

Member of Congress, 15th New York District; favorably reported present 
Child Labor Law for the District of Columbia; Chairman, School Sub-Committee, 
District of Columbia Committee, 6oth Congress; Honorary Vice-President, Public 
Federal Education Association; late Municipal Civil Service Commissioner, New 
York City. 

THE HONORABLE ALDIS B. BROTVNE, LL. B.. 

Member, Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States; Member, Bar of the 
District of Columbia; Honorary Counsel and Vice-President, Public Federal Asso- 
ciation, will be invited to preside. 

MUSIC. REFRESHMENTS. 

Note a. — See note on page 3, with reference to trip to schools. 

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THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF VICE 

By 

JOHN McELROY 



CRITICAL OPINIONS 

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studying sociological and economic questions. 

Gen. John C. Black, Civil Service Commission: "Wit sparkles and 
wisdom illuminates the little book." 

Hon. P. J. McCumber, U. S. Senator: "Its logic is unassailable." 

Judge H. C. Mathers, Common Pleas Court, Ohio: "The style is fas- 
cinating, and the moral most convincing." 

Hon. J. W. Daniel, Senator from Virginia: "An interesting work of 
philosophical reflection." 

Chas. R. Boostrom, President Normal College, Minnesota: "It is the 
greatest and best exposition on crime I have ever read." 

Hon. Joseph Foraker, Senator from Ohio: "The revelations are not 
only intensely interesting but most startling." 

Henry Watterson, Editor Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.: "A 
thoughtful, learned, and interesting essay." 

• Ell Torrance, Past Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R.: "It presents a 
novel and very interesting proposition." 

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2d. 

SESSION AT 9 A. M. 

Willard Hotel. 

BUSINESS MEETING OF DELEGATES. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. 

Business High School, gth St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. 

"AX ESPERANTO HEALTH TALK" (with blackboard illustrations), 

airs. Wilbur F. Crafts, "Atesfa pri Kapableco," 

Esperanto Editor of the Christian Herald; Chautauqua Lecturer; Author, "Open 
Letters for Primary Teachers," "Primary Normal Outlines," "Little Pilgrims' Songs," 
■"Songs for Little Folks," "The Plain Uses of the Blackboard." 

WINIFRED SACKVILLE STOXER (5 years old), 

Will give a selection in Esperanto on the Anti-Tuberculosis Crusade. 

-^OX THE RELATIOX OF PHYSICAL TO MENTAL DEFECTS IN PUBLIC 

SCHOOL CHILDREN; A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AVERAGE, 

BACKWARD, AND ATYPICAL CHILDREN" (Illustrated), 

Walter Stewart Cornell, M. D., 

Assistant Medical Inspector of Schools, Philadelphia Bureau of Public 

Health; Physician, Dispensary for Nervous Diseases, Presbyterian Hospital; 

Demonstrator of Osteology, University of Pennsylvania; Author, "Mentally 

Defective . Children in the Public Schools," "Backward Children," "Prevalence of 

Eye Strain in School Children," "A Study of Contagion." 

DISCUSSION. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 

Willard Hotel. 

" MENTAL HEALTH IX THE SCHOOLS PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED," 

Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, LL. M. 

Member, Board of Education, District of Columbia; Chairman, Special Schools 
Committee of the Board; Member, Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States; 
Dean, Washington College of Law. 

«' TUBERCULOSIS, THE CHILD, AND THE TEACHER," 

S. Adolplms Knopf, 31. D., 

Author, Prize Essay "Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, and How to Fight it," 
Berlin International Congress; "Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Its Modern Prophylaxy and the 
Treatment in Special Institutions and at Home," "How May the Medical and Teach- 
ing Professions Co-operate to Improve the Moral, Mental and Physical Condition of 
the Young," Am. Acad, of Medicine, 7, 604-22; Associate Director, Clinic for Pul- 
monary Diseases, Health Department, New York; Visiting Physician, Riverside Sana- 
torium for Consumptives; Honorary Director, Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, Connecticut; 
Consulting Physician, St. Gabriel's (New York)) Sanatorium for Consumptives; Con- 
sulting Physician, Sanatoria at Scranton, Pennsylvania; at Binghamton, New York, 
etc.. etc. 

DISCUSSION. 

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3d. 

SESSION AT 9 A. M. 

Juvenile Court, 1816 F Street, N. W. (Second Floor). 

BUSrNE«5S MEETING OF DELEGATES. 

VISIT TO THE COURT KOOM. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M" 

Willard Hotel. 

"SOME ASPECTS OF MOKAI. HYGIENICS," 
Professor Percival Clivil>l>, 

Professor and Director, English and Festivals, Ethical Culture School, New York City; 
Instructor, School of Pedagogy, University of New York; Editor, "Emerson," "Mon- 
taigne," Pope's "Iliad," Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite," "Ruskin's Message to Our 
Times," "Parsifal, and the Quest of the Holy Grail." 

"THE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST MENTAl, AND 
MO HAL, KETAKOATION," 
L,iglitner TVitmer, 31. A., Ph. D. 
Professor, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Director of its La- 
boratory of Psychology; Psychologist, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble- 
Minded Children; Founrier and Editor, "The Psychological Clinic," "Experimental 
Studies in Psychology"; Author, "Analytical Psychology," and many essays upon 
Experimental Psychology. 

DISCUSSION. 



PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. 

Willard Hotel. 

"GERMAN ADMINISTRATIVE MKTHODS IN KELATION TO THE HEALTH 

OF PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN," 

L. R. Klemm, Ph. D., 

Specialist in Foreign Educational Systems, United States Bureau of Education, 

Washington, D. C. ; Author, "European Schools," "Chips from a Teacher's Workshop," 

"History of German Literature," etc., etc.; Late Superintendent of Schools, Hamilton, 

Ohio; Late Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. 

"MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY," 
Commissioner Thomas Darlington, M. D., 
The Health Commissioner, New York City; Author, "Medical and Climat- 
ological Studies"; Visiting Physician, New York Foundling Hospital; Consult- 
ing Physician, French Hospital; Attending Physician, St. John's, Riverside and Ford- 
ham Hospitals. 

"THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH," 
Health Officer W. C. Woodward, M. D., LL. M., 
The Health Officer, District of Columbia; In Charge of Medical In- 
spection in the Public Schools of the District of Columbia; Professor, State Medicine, 
University of Georgetown; Professor, Medical Jurisprudence, Law Department, 
University of Georgetown; Professor, Medical Jurisprudence, George Washington 
University. 

DISCUSSION. 

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ENTERTAINMENT. 

The hospitable ctiizens of "the Convention Citj-, Washington," extend greeting, and 
offer hospitality to all voting delegates of the Public Education Association Conference. 

TRANSPORTATION. 

Reduced railj-oad rates will be offered by the railroad companies to 
and from Washington, from September 21st to October 12th on account 
of the International Congres^s on Tuberculosis. This great gathering of scientific men 
from every country and in the interest of public health, will be the most beneficial 
and brilliant that the Nation's Capital has ever beheld. The Congress' exhibit at the 
National Museum is earnestly recommended to the attention of the Delegates. One 
of the exhibits, showing over-crowded and normal conditions of class-rooms, will prove 
of special interest to Delegates; it will be found in the alcove assigned to the Com- 
mittee on Congestion of Population, and was prepared for their exhibit by the 
Public Education Association of New York. 

THE HOSTESS ASSOCIATION. 

The Public Federal Education Association, incorporated under the laws of the 
District of Columbia, is a volunteer organization, which is primarily responsible for 
the passage through the United States Congress of such humanitarian laws as the 
Compulsory Education Act of 1906, the Free Lectures to the People Acts of 1904, 
1905, 1906, the Increase in Teachers' Salaries and Organic School Act of 1906, and 
the introduction and passage of the Child Labor Act of 1908, the Employment Agen- 
cies Regulation Acts of 1906, 1907. With other organizations it is responsible for 
the passage of the Juvenile Court Act of 1905, and of the Investigation into the Labor 
of Women and Children Act of 1907. It is now agitatino- the establishment of Public 
Schools on Naval Reservations, proper provisions for Public Playgrounds, Public 
Baths, and School Gardens. Outside of its legislative activities, it conducts Lectures 
on First Aid to the Injured, has Committees on Public Lectures, School Reorganiza- 
tion, Hospital Reading, etc., etc. 

The Public Federal Education Association has a good educational Reference Library 
and Bibliography which may be consulted by the Delegates. A visit to the extensive 
library of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 8th and G Sts., N. W., is recommended. 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

The Public School System of the District of Columbia is directly legislated for by 
the United States Congress, and is supported by specific: Congressional appropriations 
drawn, dollar for dollar, half from the revenues furnished by the taxpayers of the 
District of Columbia, and half from the United States Treasury. The erection and 
maintenance of the buildings are by the District Building Department under a Board 
of three Commissioners appointed by the President and exercising the functions of 
Mayors or Governors of the District of Columbia. The academic government of these 
public schools is vested by Congress under the Organic School Act of 1906, in an unpaid 
Board of Education of nine members appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, in a Superintendent of Schools, in two Assistant Su- 
perintendents, in thirteen Supervising District Principals, and in nine Directors of 
Special Work including School Libraries and Night Schools. The school system is a 
bifurcate one from the Assistant Superintendents to the Kindergarten inclusive. A 
few of the principal schools which will repay a visit are: 

SOME SCHOOLS UNDER ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT HUGHES: 

Western High School. 

Business High School. 

McKinley Manual Training School. 

Grade Schools. — Dennison, Force, Franklin, Gales, Ludlow, Morgan. 

Atypical Schools. — Edmonds, Bowen, 625 "Q" Street, Gales, Greenleaf. 

Kindergarten. — Model : Dennison. 

SOME SCHOOLS UNDER ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT BRUCE: 
Normal School, No. 2. 
M Street High School. 
Armstrong Manual Training School. 

Grade Scliovls. — Garnet, Langston, Lincoln, Miner, Montgomery, Stevens. 
Atypical Schools. — St. Luke's Chapel, Garnet, Cardozo (Incorrigibles), Stevens, 
Cook, Samaritan. 

Kindergarten. — Model: Miner. 



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CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 

CONFERENCE OF EASTERN PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS, 

Object. 

Co-operation in public education; to obtain this an annual meeting shall be held 
at a place designated by the Executive Committee. 

Executive Committee. 

There shall be an Executive Committee of three members who shall serve for three 
years and shall appoint their successors. The Executive Committee shall be empowered 
to invite societies eligible to membership to join the Conference; to name the place- 
of meeting each year and to arrange the program for each Conference. 

Membership. 

The Associations joined in the first Conference shall be charter members; all other 
Associations admitted to membership in the Conference shall be non-professional or- 
ganizations strictly devoted to the cause of public education. Associations having 
educational departments and approved by the Executive Committee shall be admitted 
as Associate Members. 

Expenses of Members. 

The Association under whose auspices the Conference is held shall bear all the 
expenses incurred thereby. The clerical expenses of the Executive Committee shall 
be met by an annual fee of two dollars from each Society. 

Amendments. 

The Constitution may be amended at any meeting of the Conference by a two- 
tkirds vote of the members present. 



Amendment. — The annual dues shall hereafter be five dollars (1905). 



PUBLIC-FEDERAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. 

Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. 

ii6 C Street, N. E. Telephone, Lincoln 34. 

Branch Office, Room 29, 918 F Street, N. W. Telephone, Main 7364. 



OFFICERS. 

Mrs. John Milton Gitterman, A. M., President. 

Mrs. Chas. Carlyle Darwin, A. B., Sec'y. Ex- Treasurer-General, D. A. R. 

George White, Esq., Treasurer, Vice-Pres., Commercial National Bank. 

HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Hon. Wm. H. Taft Hon. Giflford Pinchot 

Hon. Chas. J. Bonaparte Hon. Simon A, Wolf 

Hon. Paul Morton Captain Geo. A. Van Smith 

Senator J. C. S. Blackburn John Joy Edson, Esq. 

Senator Shelby M. Cullom MrSu E. L. Burchard, A. B. 

Senator Henry C. Hansbrough J. M. Gitterman, A. M., Ph. D. 

Representative Wm. S. Bennet Hon. Ion Perdicaris 

Representative Philip P. Campbell Hon. Samuel Gompers, Pres. A. F. of L. 

Representative Jos. A. Goulden L. R. Klemm, Ph. D. 

Representative T. F. Marshall Rev. S. M. Newman, D. D. 

Representative Jacob Van Vechten Olcott Hon. Geo. F. Bowerman 

Representative Herbert Parsons Max West, A. M., Ph. D. 

Representative W. A. Reeder Miss Lois A. Bangs 

Representative E. L. Taylor, Jr. Mrs. L. B. Swormstedt, A, B. 

Dr. Alex. Graham Bell Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr. 

Aldis B. Browne, Esq. Pearce Kintzing, B. S., M. D. 



COMMITTEES ON CONFERENCE. 

Business Committee. 

John Joseph McMahon, LL.B., M. A., Chairman (with power). 

Committee on Hospitality. 
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Chairman. 
Mrs. Aldis B Browne Mrs. J. A. Gilfillan 

Mrs. C. C. Darwin Mrs. Laise-Phillips 

Mrs. William S. Bennet Mrs. E. J. Somers 

Executive Committee of the Conference 

Mr. George I. Aldrich, Brookline Education Society, Brookline, Mass. 

Mrs. L. R. Dashiell, Education Association, Richmond, Va. 

Mrs. William E. D. Scott, Public Education Association, New York City. 

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